The New Crime of Thinking

'One of the tenets of any totalitarian society is that the citizenry must acquiesce to government control. The state itself is supreme and sovereign, not the people. This has been true throughout history whether it was during Hitler's, Stalin's, Mao's or any other of a number of brutal dictatorial rulers? reigns. Dissent was stifled, whether it was ideological or physical, and accused parties faced humiliation, incarceration, or death for their unwillingness to conform. Is that where we?re headed?? By Gary Bennett.